THE FIRST TORINO MINI MAKER FAIRE IS JUST ONE DAY AWAY!
– May 29, 2014
The Torino Mini Maker Faire - Saturday 31st of May – is the event dedicated to both digital and non digital manual creativity. Organized by Officine Arduino,Toolbox Coworking and Fablab Torino, it’s the first maker faire in the town of Mole Antonelliana and will be an event open to all: curious, newbies, kids, inventors of all shapes and sizes. Created in the United States in 2006, the Maker Faires over the years have become a not-to-be-missed event for anyone looking for a way to have quick picture of creative projects and innovative ideas of the moment.
Massimo Banzi and Bruce Sterling will close the day of talks with a keynote starting at 6pm and titled: “Arduino, the future and the internet of things”. If you live around the Piemonte area, it’s an event you won’t want to miss!
REAL-TIME TINKERING ON INTEL GALILEO USING A MOBILE DEVICE
– May 28, 2014
If you are a beginner and want to start prototyping easily with Intel Galileo, it could be fun to use ConnectAnyThing. It makes it easy for novices to start tinkering in hardware before jumping into example code and the IDE but it’s also useful for experienced builders that want to try something out really quickly.
WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF BOARD GAMES? SOME STUDENTS ARE MAKING IT CONNECTED
– May 27, 2014
Fifteen students from Master degree of ECV Aquitaine under the direction ofTazas Project - an artistic group run by Guillaume Beinat and Alexandre Suné – created and shared with us a smart board game called “World War Web”.
The goal is simple: survive a computer virus that has infected your machine and, throughout the game, the player should build a strategy to win this virtual war.
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FOUR GUYS MET AT ARDUINO DAY AND NOW THEY ARE FINALISTS AT NASA CHALLENGE
– May 26, 2014
Last March, during Arduino Day in Zaragoza, four guys met for the first time and then decided to participate to the Nasa Challenge collaborating to the project made by Carlos Sicilia Til in the previews months:
OpenCuriosity is an open source, exomars rover (1:5 scale) with Arduino as main controller, based on the NASA Curiosity Rover. It contains a set of Arduino boards and sensors. The general public will be allowed to use these Arduinos and sensors for their own creative purposes while they are in space. All the people will be allowed to integrate their project in the robot, and the data gathered will be available on the internet in order to share this information with the general public for educational, science or other purposes. We want to provide affordable space exploration for everyone!
The robot designed by the Aragonese team is now among the finalists of the NASA contest!
SPEAKERS, MAKERS VILLAGE AND PROJECTS: MAKER FAIRE ROME TAKES OFF
– May 24, 2014
Riccardo Luna, co-curator of Maker Faire Rome has just revealed the first list of speakers confirming their presence next October! You have some more days to submit your project, deadline extended until 15th of June.
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Today, together with Massimo Banzi, we have some important news to share with you. There are big novelties at the second annual European Maker Faire in Rome (actually, there will be many more within the next few days as you will see…).
The first one is the list of speakers for the opening conference on October 2. It is not complete, other names will be added, but already we can say: it is an incredible list.
We are delighted to announce the presence of, among others, Cory Doctorow, who, here, on this blog, does not even need to be introduced; artist Neil Harbisson; scientist Ellen Jorgensen, who will discuss genetic hacking; the very young Joey Hudy will be back and, this time, Super-Awesome Sylvia will also come; and the Dutch robot music band TeamDARE. Read the rest of this entry »
A TANGIBLE ORCHESTRA ONE CAN WALK THROUGH AND PLAY WITH OTHERS
– May 22, 2014
Tangible Orchestra is a project by Picarøøn, a collaboration of artists Rebecca Gischel and Sebastian Walter, combining electronic and classical music perceived very individually in a three-dimensional space.
Single units are triggered by people in close proximity and play a unique instrument, with the collection of individual instruments gathering as people congregate in the project space, eventually creating a complete musical work. As electronic music is usually composed and arranged at the mixing desk, the installation creates the illusion of an orchestra playing a musical piece that relies heavily on digitally created sounds and therefore could normally not be perceived this way.
1900 CHINESE LANTERNS AND MORE THAN 15000 LEDS CONTROLLED BY ARDUINO IN JAKARTA
– May 21, 2014
We are delighted to share a video about the light installation performed byArduino Verkstad in Jakarta in 2013. 15200 LEDs in 3800 groups adding up to 1900 Chinese lanterns controlled by 40 Arduino Mega boards with a specially design shield to handle communications and a lot of manual work.
Take a look at the shorter version of video below focusing more on the results of the installation, or the full length directly on youtube.
Enjoy!
HUMMINGBIRD DUO IS AN ARDUINO AT HEART ROBOTICS KIT FOR AGES 10 TO 110
– May 20, 2014
Today we want to introduce you to a new Arduino at Heart Partner launching on Kickstarter this week: Hummingbird Duo is an electronics kit designed to be fun and educational for a fourth grader, a high school student, a college engineering student, or an adult maker.
Hummingbird Duo creates a bridge between making and classroom education combining craft materials, electronic components and drag &drop programming. Part of Hummingbird’s mission is, in fact, to explode common conceptions of how robotics can be used in K-12 education: Read the rest of this entry »
MUSEUM FOR ALL: A TACTILE EXHIBITION AND PROJECT FROM MINSK
– May 19, 2014
Gleb Kanunnikau is a designer and trainer based in Minsk. He is part of a group of volunteers running a meetup group and an open laboratory bringing together people from the tech and education/media and experimental, hackerspace scene trying to solve a few very local and very practical problems that don’t seem to be getting a lot of attention from the tech community. Their initiative is focused on providing educational tools for children and adults with vision disabilities and is organized as an open laboratory with contribution from Minsk hackerspace (the first in Belarus), Belarusian meetup.by
Gleb wrote me a long email and explained the aims and the context of their amazing work:
The problem is that schools for the visually impaired aren’t getting new books with Braille type and the education system for these kids is stuck in the 1970s, only now it is much worse (at least in the USSR there were factories and employment options for these people, as well as city districts with disabilities-friendly housing). They are the forgotten, invisible people – no textbooks means there are few people able to read Braille books – and they just can’t leave their apartments nor get education or a job.
SEE YOU AT MAKER FAIRE BAY AREA! 17TH AND 18TH OF MAY
– May 17, 2014
Today and tomorrow you visit us at the Arduino booth (#204) right next to Atmel booth (#205) and have a look at our cool demos. You’ll find all the new boards: Arduino TRE Development Edition and Arduino ZERO, Arduino Yún together with Temboo and the freshly baked Arduino at Heart littleBits Module!
Massimo Banzi keynote is scheduled at 4.00PM and Michael Shiloh’s Getting Started with Arduino talks are waiting for you 2 times a day. Read the rest of this entry »
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